Olga Cortadelles

This Autumn, unlike previous posts on our wall, we want to present, more than a person, an artistic duo. A figure formed by a support and an artist. The support is not from the Phoenix brand, nor from our beloved competition. The support is a town in the northeast of Spain, in the province of Lleida, called Penelles. A place that has become a work of art by offering the walls of its houses as a creative platform for artists, thanks toFestival of Murals and Rural Artannual.

One of the brushes that bathes these walls in art is that of Olga Cortadelles, our autumnal artist. She is a creator of spontaneous forms through inquiry and experimentation. Mixing materials such as fabrics or papers, techniques like stamping, cutting, and supports like cardboard, newspaper, or wood, among others, produces a striking result. Olga has painted murals in the town of Penelles, and now she paints on our wall in Phoenix, where she presents her Notebook 'Apprentice of Flight.' And, with rhythm, we can't help but sing 'Fasten your seat belts because we are taking off...'

For me, it is a vital game that fills me with joy and energy.

I am Olga, born in Agramunt, with a degree in Fine Arts and always involved in artistic creation, craftsmanship, or graphic design. I currently live in Penelles where I have theEngraving and Screen Printing Workshop, Estampart.

I have always felt the need to build and manipulate with different materials such as cardboard, fabric, wood. I like to draw and paint what surrounds me and what I imagine, also cutting, gluing, and transforming images into new creations. Upon discovering printmaking and stamping techniques, I completed the sense of mixing all disciplines in order to seek an image or even an object.

With watercolors, acrylics, collage, transfers, and also Pop-up… the paper fills with color, shapes appear, and a narrative is built between the elements and the composition.

Birds dive into a sea of clouds or fish that are flight apprentices… with multiple readings.

For me, it is a vital game that fills me with joy and energy.

"'Flight Apprentice' is an artist's notebook, an intense course of experimental work that, as its name indicates, has given me WINGS to enjoy spontaneity and collect multiple techniques in the notebook."

Stamping Shop-WorkshopIt is a space for exhibitions, for tasting art and territory. Our main objective is to promote creativity, focusing on graphic work and giving value to artistic printing techniques. Olga Cortadelles Cercós, promoter of the Estampart Art Space, at the same time Ocor lalala, artistic name with which I sign my own production work.

“Flight Apprentice“ is the title of my work created this past year, a notebook made with the accompaniment of the Grupo Cuaderno Negro led by the visual artist Iván Araujo.